Gary Roland Fones Portrait

Professor Gary Fones

Professor of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry

Gary.Fones@port.ac.uk

PhD Supervisor

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Faculty of Science and Health School of the Environment and Life Sciences Environmental Geography and Geosciences Biological sciences Sustainability and the environment Institute of the Earth and Environment

Biography

I joined the University of Portsmouth in 2006 as a Senior Lecturer in Marine Biogeochemistry and was promoted in 2013 to Reader and in 2017 to Professor of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry.  Previous to this I held a number of research posts at the University of Southampton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA) and Lancaster University.  I have a background in oceanography (BSc and MSc) and environmental analytical chemistry (PhD). I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal ‘Continental Shelf Research’ and a core member of the NERC Peer Review College.

Research interests

My main research interests are water and sediment quality monitoring using in-situ passive samplers for trace metals, nutrients and polar organic contaminants. Other research interests include trace metal and nutrient sediment water interactions (including sediment resuspension), benthic fluxes, contaminant fluxes and transformations and benthic-pelagic coupling. I have worked on a number of NERC funded projects (Macronutrients and Shelf-Sea Biogeochemistry) and currently work closely with a number of UK water supply companies on integrating passive sampling monitoring into their coastal monitoring and river catchment management strategies.

Research outputs

2024

Quantification and risk assessment of polar organic contaminants in two chalk streams in Hampshire, UK using the Chemcatcher passive sampler

Robinson, R. F. A., Mills, G. A., Grabic, R., Bořík, A., Fones, G. R.

20 Aug 2024, In: Science of the Total Environment. 939, 14p., 173316

Research output: Article

Metal concentrations in transitional and coastal waters measured by passive (Diffusive Gradients in Thin-films) and spot sampling: MONITOOL Project Dataset

Rodríguez, J. G., Guesdon, S., Amouroux, I., Belzunce-Segarra, M. J., Bersuder, P., Bolam, T., Brito, P., Caetano, M., Carvalho, I., Correia dos Santos, M. M., Desogus, A., Fones, G. R., Gonzalez, J. L., Larreta, J., Lebrun, L., Marras, B., McHugh, B., Menet-Nédélec, F., Menchaca, I., Millán Gabet, V., Monteiro, C. E., Montero, N., Nolan, M., Regan, F., Rodrigo, M., Rosa, N., Schintu, M., Schmitt, A., Todde, D., Warford, L., White, B., Zhang, H.

1 Apr 2024, In: Data In Brief. 53, 8p., 110145

Research output: Article

2023

Monitoring of polar organic compounds in fresh waters using the Chemcatcher passive sampler

Robinson, R. F. A., Mills, G. A., Fones, G. R.

13 Feb 2023, In: MethodsX. 10, 12p., 102054

Research output: Article

Occurrence of organic pollutants in the River Itchen and River Test—two chalk streams in Southern England, UK

Robinson, R. F. A., Mills, G. A., Gravell, A., Schumacher, M., Fones, G. R.

1 Feb 2023, In: Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30

Research output: Article

2022

A miniaturized passive sampling-based workflow for monitoring chemicals of emerging concern in water

Richardson, A. K., Irlam, R. C., Wright, H. R., Mills, G. A., Fones, G. R., Stürzenbaum, S. R., Cowan, D. A., Neep, D. J., Barron, L. P.

15 Sep 2022, In: Science of the Total Environment. 839, 13p., 156260

Research output: Article

Pesticide fate during drinking water treatment determined through passive sampling combined with suspect screening and multivariate statistical analysis

Taylor, A. C., Mills, G. A., Gravell, A., Kerwick, M., Fones, G. R.

15 Aug 2022, In: Water Research. 222, 12p., 118865

Research output: Article

Metals concentrations in transitional and coastal waters by ICPMS and voltammetry analysis of spot samples and passive samplers (DGT)

Caetano, M., Correia Dos Santos, M. M., Rosa, N., Carvalho, I., Rodríguez, J. G., Belzunce-Segarra, M. J., Menchaca, I., Larreta, J., Sanz, M. R., Millán-Gabet, V., Gonzalez, J., Amouroux, I., Guesdon, S., Menet-Nédélec, F., White, B., Regan, F., Nolan, M., McHugh, B., Bersuder, P., Bolam, T., Robinson, C. D., Fones, G. R., Zhang, H., Schintu, M., Montero, N., Marras, B.

1 Jun 2022, In: Marine Pollution Bulletin. 179, 15p., 113715

Research output: Article

2021

Passive sampling with suspect screening of polar pesticides and multivariate analysis in river catchments: Informing environmental risk assessments and designing future monitoring programmes

Taylor, A. C., Mills, G., Gravell, A., Kerwick, M., Fones, G.

15 Sep 2021, In: Science of the Total Environment. 787, 16p., 147519

Research output: Article

Assessing variability in the ratio of metal concentrations measured by DGT-type passive samplers and spot sampling in European seawaters

Rodríguez, J. G., Amouroux , I., Belzunce-Segarra, M. J., Bersuder, P., Bolam, T., Caetano, M., Carvalho, I., dos Santos, M. C., Fones, G., Gonzalez, J., Guesdon, S., Larreta, J., Marras, B., McHugh, B., Menet-Nédélec, F., Menchaca, I., Millán Gabet , V., Montero, N., Nolan, M., Regan, F., Robinson, C. D., Rosa, N., Sanz, M. R., Schintu, M., White, B., Zhang, H.

20 Aug 2021, In: Science of the Total Environment. 783, 9p., 147001

Research output: Article

Concurrent sampling of transitional and coastal waters by Diffusive Gradient in Thin-films (DGT) and spot sampling for trace metals analysis

Bersuder, P., Amouroux, I., Belzunce-Segarra, M. J., Bolam, T., Caetano, M., Carvalho, I., Correia Dos Santos, M., Fones, G. R., Gonzalez, J., Guesdon, S., Larreta, J., Marras, B., Mchugh, B., Menet-nédélec, F., Menchaca, I., Gabet, V. M., Montero, N., Nolan, M., Regan, F., Robinson, C. D., Rosa, N., Sanz, M. R., Rodríguez, J. G., Schintu, M., White, B., Zhang, H.

1 Aug 2021, In: MethodsX. 8, 14p., 101462

Research output: Article

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